I am using the following code to find the server response time.
<?php
// check responsetime for a webbserver
function pingDomain($domain){
$starttime = microtime(true);
// supress error messages with @
$file = @fsockopen($domain, 80, $errno, $errstr, 10);
$stoptime = microtime(true);
$status = 0;
if (!$file){
$status = -1; // Site is down
}
else{
fclose($file);
$status = ($stoptime - $starttime) * 1000;
$status = floor($status);
}
return $status;
}
?>
I tested some websites using this code, and it returns that server response time is around 40 to 120 milliseconds. But when i open these sites its taking me around 2-4 seconds to get the first byte.
The server response time calculated by https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ is also almost 2-4 seconds. So whats wrong with that code?
You make no HTTP request to the server, but open a socket. What you are measuring here is not a server response time but a connection time.
You can try to load a page to get total connection, response, and data transfer time, e.g.:
file_get_contents("http://$domain/")
To retrieve header only:
get_headers("http://$domain/")
Or you can use curl for even more control.